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DHS Claims to Be Winding Down in the Twin Cities. Local Leaders Are Still Pissed.

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After more than two months of an aggressive—and deadly—occupation of the Twin Cities, top immigration official Tom Homan said during a press conference on Thursday that the Trump administration is scaling back “Operation Metro Surge.” Yet some local officials who have long been at odds with federal leaders aren’t buying it. Elliott Payne, the president of […]

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Why VA Psychologists Are Quitting in Record Numbers

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This article first appeared on The War Horse, an award-winning nonprofit news organization educating the public on military service. Subscribe to their newsletter. Each year, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ internal watchdog sends a survey to all 139 of the agency’s medical centers coast to coast with a straightforward question: Which jobs have severe staffing […]

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Trump Plans to Repeal the Finding That Lets the EPA Regulate Climate-Warming Emissions

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This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters. “President Trump will […]

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This “Fish-Fluencer” Telling ICE to Fuck Off Is the Best Thing You’ll Watch Today

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Nate Pischke has found a uniquely Minnesotan way to protest the ICE surge in Minneapolis, using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown. “I don’t feel comfortable putting out fishing content when, you know, our neighbors are getting kidnapped by goons on […]

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Pam Bondi Refuses to Apologize to Epstein Survivors

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The House Judiciary Committee’s hearing on oversight of the Justice Department devolved into insults and chaos on Wednesday. One telling example: whether Attorney General Pam Bondi and the Trump administration would apologize to survivors who were named, unredacted, in the department’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation files. Among the documents released late last month, the Justice Department […]

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MAGA Absolutely Cannot Let Bad Bunny Go 

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It has now been several very long days since the Super Bowl and Bad Bunny’s raucous, joyous, extremely popular halftime show, stuffed with celebrities, heartfelt tributes to Puerto Rico and Latino culture, and a pointed listing of most countries in the Americas. Meanwhile, as one cannot help but be aware, at the same time on […]

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DHS Shot Her and Called Her a “Terrorist.” New Videos Show Something Different.

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Newly released body camera footage further undermines the Trump administration’s efforts to falsely portray Marimar Martinez—who was shot multiple times by Border Patrol agent Charles Exum in October—as a “domestic terrorist.” Federal prosecutors shared three videos on Tuesday evening after a federal judge ruled last week that the footage and other evidence could be made […]

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The GOP’s “Show Us Your Papers” Bill Is the Latest Effort to Help Trump Take Over Elections

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The Republican-controlled US House is set to pass a new version of the SAVE Act, a sweeping voter restriction bill that would require people to show citizenship documents to register to vote and strict forms of photo ID to cast a ballot, potentially disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans. The House consideration of the new […]

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“The Tide Is Turning”: Democratic Military Vets Respond to Trump’s Failure to Indict Them

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In a humiliating loss for the Justice Department, a federal grand jury on Tuesday refused to indict Democratic lawmakers who made a video reminding members of the military and intelligence community that they can refuse to carry out illegal orders. The six Democrats featured in the 90-second clip are Sens. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.) and Mark […]

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Trump’s Lust for Greenland’s Rare Earth Minerals Faces Harsh Arctic Realities

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This story was originally published by Yale e360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President Donald Trump has been voicing interest in exploiting Greenland’s mineral wealth since his first term in office, when he started talking about possibly seizing the autonomous territory. His threats of a hostile takeover have eased, but amid the focus on […]

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How Project 2025 Is Reshaping Our Country

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During the 2024 presidential campaign, a conservative playbook emerged. Created by the Heritage Foundation, this 900-plus-page document was a roadmap written for a future conservative president. And while some Republicans tried to distance themselves from Project 2025, the authors and the concepts they wrote about have been embraced by President Donald Trump. Journalist David A. […]

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Trump’s Immigration Officials Don’t Want to Talk About the Cruelty

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“I’m not going to speak about personnel actions,” acting ICE director Todd Lyons said in response to a question from Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) about whether ICE agents have been fired for misconduct during his leadership.  “I welcome the opportunity to speak to the family in private, but I’m not going to comment on any […]

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